Re:You probably don’t need AWS and are better off without it
by sharpy on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @05:41PM
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True. But while avoiding vendor lock in is a worthy goal, it does have its costs - as in you are now on the hook for duplicating various functionalities that may not work as well together.
For example, let's take a simple producer/consumer system with some sort of queue. That's an easy enough problem. But add in some additional requirements:
* Data encryption - both in transit/rest
* Access control
* Audit logs
And it becomes much more complicated. It is a trade off. But the productivity gains available by having a common consistent solutions to issues like this... shouldn't be underestimated.
For example, let's take a simple producer/consumer system with some sort of queue. That's an easy enough problem. But add in some additional requirements:
* Data encryption - both in transit/rest * Access control * Audit logs
And it becomes much more complicated. It is a trade off. But the productivity gains available by having a common consistent solutions to issues like this... shouldn't be underestimated.